Source: Duma Key
Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 85
“We enjoy no pleasure so much as we do tormenting ourselves.”
The Monthly Magazine
“When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”
Source: The Land of Green Plums
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
“To think we could have spared ourselves from living all that we have lived!”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”
“We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 13
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), II : The Starting-Point
Context: The truth is sum, ergo cogito — I am, therefore I think, although not everything that is thinks. Is not consciousness of thinking above all consciousness of being? Is pure thought possible, without consciousness of self, without personality? Can there exist pure knowledge without feeling, without that species of materiality which feelings lends to it? Do we not perhaps feel thought, and do we not feel ourselves in the act of knowing and willing? Could not the man in the stove [Descartes] have said: "I feel, therefore I am"? or "I will, therefore I am"? And to feel oneself, is it not perhaps to feel oneself imperishable?
